12 Monday, March 7, 1988 / University Daily Kansan Sports KU women's basketball team beats NU, OU; heads to finals By Keith Stroker Kansan sports writer SALINA-Yesterday, for the second year in a row, the Kansas women's basketball team ended any championship hopes the Nebraska Cornhuskers might have had by defeating them in the semifinals of the Big Eight Conference tournament. The score this year was 87-84. Last year it was 74-73. See related story Last season, Kansas was the top seed and favored to win. This year, however, the Cornhuskers were the top seed. Kansas, 20-9. will play tonight in the championship game at 7 p.m. against the Colorado Buffaloes. Colorado defeated the Missouri Tigers in their semifinal game 84-30. The Cornhuskers' loss marked only the second time in the history of the Big Eight tournament that the top-seeded team had not reached the finals. In 1986, Oklahoma did not make it. The Jayhawks defeated the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday 67-66, advancing to Sunday's semifinal game. Nebraska, 22-6, advanced by defeating Kansas State 71-51. Kansas forward Sandy Shaw scored 33 points, making seven of eight from three-point range. Her effort tied the fifth highest, single-game scoring total in tournament history. The Jayhawks' Lynette Woodard had the highest, scoring 38 points in 1981 against Colorado. Kansas guard Lisa Braddy made four clutch free throws in the final 22 seconds of play to help seal the victory. Kansas coach Marian Washington said the team approached yesterday's game as if it were the finals. The past two games have been great for us," Washington said. "Sandy gave us a big lift with her shooting this afternoon. We made some adjustments in the second half which helped us to win." Shaw, whose 33 points was her career high, said she felt confident every time she shot the ball. "I was in a good flow today and it felt good," Shaw said. "It was the best offensive game of my career. I can't wait until tomorrow night." Things did not begin well for Shaw. With 14:55 left in the first half, Shaw took an elbow to the head by teammate Deborah Richardson and it looked as if she might not play the rest of the game. rest of the game. After an official's timeout and a break, Shaw returned to the game with a bandaged head. But it didn't seem to hurt her performance. Shaw received stitches after the game but should be able to play tonight. Braddy said she tried to relax when she shot her free throws at the end of the game. "I pretended like I was in practice," Braddy said. "It was just me and the goal. I was confident the shots would fall." Nebraska coach Angela Beck, whose team defeated Kansas twice during the regular season, said, "Kansas played a great game and they deserved to win today. We lost the game in the early part of the season, but a very well played ballgame, a credit to women's basketball." With 2:01 left in the first half, Kansas trailed 44-38. Two free throws each by Richardson and forward Lisa Dougherty brought the score closer with Nebraska leading at halftime 44-42. In the second half, Kansas scored the first eight points and took a 50-44 lead with 17:13 left. The Jayhawks, helped by the outside shooting of Shaw, went on to take a 63-50 lead with 13:26 left. The Jayhawks outscored Nebraska 25-6 in a stretch that put them on the road to victory. Kansas held seven to 10-point leads throughout the second half, until the 3:51 mark. The Jayhawks led 79-69 at that point. Nebraska scored six straight points in the next minute of play, cutting the score to 79-75. Braddy two free throws with 1:08 left gave Kansas an 83-78 lead, but the Cornhuskers wouldn't quit. Nebraska's Amy Stephens and Maurice Ivy each made a three-pointer basket, making the score 83-82 with 27 seconds left in the game. Braddy then made the free throws that gave the Jayhawks the victory. Braddy had 16 points, five rebounds and five assists; Dougherty had 13 points and six rebounds; and Richardson had six rebounds. Nebraska was led by Ivy, who had 29 points and 11 rebounds. Stephens added 20 points, including four of six from three-point range. The winner of tonight's championship game will get an automatic berth into the NCAA women's tournament. Washington said yesterday's win should allow Kansas to get into the NCAA tournament, even if they lose tonight. Kansas 67 Oklahoma 66 Despite Kansas' two victories over Oklahoma during the regular season, the first-round game was expected to be close. In both regular season games, Kansas won 71-68. Saturday at the Bicentennial Center in Salina, the game was even closer. Oklahoma was unable to get a shot off with five seconds remaining, and Kansas won 67-66. Lisa Dougherty led Kansas with 18 points and helped build a 13-point lead in the first half. The Sooners battled back and tied the score at 34 at halftime. "I thought it was a great game," Kansas coach Marian Washington said. "We missed some shots underneath, but Oklahoma is a very talented team." Richardson 6 3/4 15, Shaw 5 0/1 11, Omanl 1 0/2 1 Braddy 3 0/8 Basker 4 3/4 11, Doughty 7 4/7 18, Stroughter 1 0/2, Page 1 2, Jackson 0 1 0, Nelson 0 1/0, Totals 18 10-15 67. Kansas 67, Oklahoma 66 Utah Jazz 11, Boston 9, 7, 17. Quinnen 0-0-1, Notaats 8-3-15 Los Angeles 21, Minnesota 18, 4, 6. Brick 4-1-6, 7-9-10, 17-19. Hafftine Tied 34-34, Total fouls - Oklahoma 21, Kansas 18. Failed out—none. Three point shots—Oklahoma 5 (McKenon 19, Zachary 3, Rushing 1), Kansas 6 (Shaw 16,) Rebound 3, Assists 4, Dakota 4 (Douphrey 10), Assists —Oklahoma 12 (McKenon 6), Kansas 14 (Brady 8), Techniques — Kansas 87. Nebraska 84 Katharina 1-2, 3-4; Aisha 12-2-23, 3-4; Anod 1-0-0, 2-5; Brady 5-6, 9; Baker 4-2, 8; Dougherty 5-4, 13; Stroughter 2-1, 2; Page 0-0, 0; Jackson 2-2, 3; Totals 32 16-25 87 Haliase 1-4-6 4-6, 1v. 16-2 1y. 17-2 1m. Haliase 1-4-6 4-6, 1v. 16-2 1y. 17-2 1m. Haliase 1-0-3 4-6, 1v. 16-2 1m. 17-2 1m. Haliase 1-0-3 4-6, 1v. 16-2 1m. 17-2 1m. Haliase 1-0-3 4-6, 1v. 16-2 1m. 17-2 1m. Fouled out - Nebrasaca - Flame. Three point shots - Nebrasaca 1-6 (Siphens 4-6) 39 shots - Nebrasaca 1-6 (Siphens 4-6) 39 shots - Nebrasaca 1-6 (Siphens 4-6) 39 shots - Nebrasaca 1-6 (Siphens 4-6) 39 (11) Kansas 39 (Richardson, Dougherty 6) Assists - Nebrasaca 8 (iv. Siephens 2), Kana- se 2, Kanase 2 (11) Kansas 39 (Richardson, Dougherty 6) Assists - Nebrasaca 8 (iv. Siephens 2), Kana- se 2, Kanase 2 Kansas forward Sandy Shaw looks to score against the defense of Nebraska forward Kelly Hubert. Shaw received a head injury after being hit by an elbow from teammate Debra Richardson. Shaw recovered and scored 33 points in yesterday's victory over the Cornhuskers. Kansas will face Colorado tonight in the Big Eight Conference tournament final. Women win Big Eight swimming; men place second Kansan sports writer By Tom Stinson Kempf, the Kansas swimming coach, did backflips nine straight times between 1976-1984. Each one of those years the Kansas women's swimming team won the Big Eight Championship. Gary Kemp's backflipped a little out of practice, but it was satisfying. Saturday night, Kempf once again got to perform the dive, as his women's team regained the conference title. The Jayhawk women dominated the championships and the favorite, 17th-ranked Nebraska during all three days of competition, winning 715.5 to 84. "It was a tradition I started when we won my first championship in 1976." Kemp said. "But it's had a little layoff the last few years. It was a little rusty, but it was fun." Iowa State was third with 332.5 and Missouri was fourth with 236. "I'm proud as hell of them," Kempi said. "We've struggled during the year, but I always maintained that they were hard workers and talented. And now it came together and they just dominated. they just performed from the top of the lineup to the bottom. We just had more desire than Nebraska." The Kansas women won 13 of 20 Big Eight titles during the weekend at Bob Devaney Sport Center in Lincoln. Nebraska won the men's championship for the ninth consecutive year with 583 points. Kansas was a close second with 524. Iowa State was third with 390 and Missouri was fourth 170. "The progress we made on the men's side was just fantastic. We didn't win the championship, but we were right up there. We feel like we have one championship back home where it belongs." Kempf said. "Now we want the other. Next year we want both." Kempf was named the Big Eight men's Coach of the Year. Barbara Ann Smith was named the meet's Outstanding Female Performer as she led Jayhawks with three individual victories. "I was really shocked to win," Smith said. "I was only on two relays, and I thought you'd have to be more than just an individual swimmer to win." The Mequon, Wis., junior won the 500-yard freestyle, the 400-yard individual medley and the 1,650-yard freestyle. Her time of 16:34:45 in the 1,650 set a Big Eight meet and a school record as well as qualifying her for the Women's NCAA Championships on March 17-19. 'I wanted to break the record and make the NCAA cuts in the 1,560. But I was still shocked when I touched. From what people said, Coach was doing a song-and-dance on the deck during the race and the crowd was really behind me," Smith said. Freshman Kelley Kauzlarich broke the league and school record in the one-meter diving with a score of 469.1. Kauzlarich, senior Lori Spurney and sophomore Jilie Pierce all qualified for the NCAA championships in the one-meter competition, and Kauzlarich and Spurney also qualified in the three-meter diving. Sophomore Andy Flower qualified for the men's championships in the three-meter competition. Kansas diving coach Barry Sustera was named the league's women's diving coach of the year for the second straight year. resman Kelly Seavall, freshman Jennifer Carani, Smith and junior Sue Spry broke the league meet record with a time of 7:30.92. The women's 200 freestyle relay team of Spry, junior Erin Easton, freshman Gina Brown and sophomore Susan Bloomfield qualified for the NCAA meet with a time of 1:34.97. the second straight year The women's 800 freestyle relay of The men's 400 medley relay of junior Glenn Trammel, sophomore Pat McCool, junior Dan Mendenhall and sophomore Andrew Billings broke the league record, the school record and qualified for the NCAA meet with a time of 3:19.71. The other two men's relays, the 400 and 800 freestyle, also broke school records. Billings led off the 400 relay with a 100 time of 45.0 to break the school record and lead the team to a 3:00.34 clocking. Also on that NCAA qualifying relay was Trammler, junior Allan Chaney and freshman John Easton. The 800 relay was Billings, senior Chris Cook, Billings and Trammel swam a 6.39.75. "We knew we could make the (qualifying) cuts if we swam together," said Trammel, who also qualified in the 100 backstroke. "It was just a matter of if we could put it together at the same time and we did." Billings completed his rewriting of the Kansas sprint freestyle records, with a 20.65 seconds in the 50. Easton added a school record in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:38.9. "We (the men) were a little disappointed we didn't win, but we went up and swam a great meet." Trammel said. "We never let down, we fought all three days. We just got hurt in a Kansas guard Jeff Gueldner defends Oklahoma State guard Chris Gafney. KU defeated the Cowboys, 75-57, Saturday in Allen Field House. 'Hawks trounce Cowboys, 75-57 By Elaine Sung Kansan sports writer There were only two minutes left to play in the Kansas-Oklahoma State game, and guard Clint Normore was dribbling near the three-point line when he motioned for a timeout. See SWIMMERS, p. 14, col. 1 Kansas was ahead 71-53 at the time. When the Jayhawks finally broke from their huddle and took their places on the floor, No. 23 was with them. Forward Archie Marshall was there for one last collegiate appearance. He had sat out all last season in order to recover from his first knee injury sustained in the 1968 Final four game against Duke. Then he suffered another season-ending knee injury in December against St. John's. Marshall had already surprised the fans in Allen Field House when he went through the pre-game routine in his Jayhawks warm-up suit with the rest of the team. The fans went wild when Brown put Marshall in the game, welcoming him with a thunderous standing ovation. Kansas coach Larry Brown had planned to put him in, a call timeout and pull him out. But Marshall stood unguarded by the sideline in his uniform and knee brace so he let loose with a jump shot from way outside the three-point circle. The ball sailed wide of the basket and bounced off the rim. Normore ended up with it. Brown called another timeout and pulled the seniors out one by one. Oklahoma State forward Richard Dumas and guard John Starks, both from Tulsa, ran from the visiting bench to exchange hugs with Marshall. Then forward Chris Piper came out, finishing his last home game with 10 points and six rebounds. width 10 pts Last of all was forward Danny Manning, who led the Jayhawks with 31 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and four steals. By the way, Kansas defeated the Cowboys 75-57. That seemed to be the attitude on Saturday night. It wasn't the game that was important as much as the celebration that went with it. But the players knew they had to finish business first. Kansas guard Jeff Gueldner, who tied his season-high with 10 points and added four rebounds and five assists, started the game off with a layup, but both teams struggled in the first few minutes. With 14:48 on the clock, Kansas had the advantage with a score of only 7-5. score of 82. Kansas outscored the Cowboys 15-6 in the next 7 minutes, with Manning contributing nine of those points. Throughout the game, it was obvious that Manning was trying to feed the ball to teammate Piper. "he was trying to get me some points," Piper said. "It wasn't a big deal to me, I just wanted to win the game. But it seemed like a big deal to him. "I think he was going for a triple- double," he added, jokingly. A triple-double is when a player scores in double-figures in rebounding, points and assists. But Manning finished with a double-double, the 41st of his career. See JAYHAWKS, p. 14, col. 5 The Cowboys shot only 42 percent from the field for the game, the 12th consecutive time the Jayhawks have been able to hold an opponent down below 50 percent. Kansas also outbounded Oklahoma State 38-28 and And while Manning was passing the ball to Piper, the rest of the Jayhawks were passing the ball to him. "In the back of my mind, I was thinking to get the ball to Danny and Chris," said guard Kevin Pritchard, who was suffering from tendinitis in his left knee since Friday and fouled out of the game with five rebounds and two points. "It was their last game, and I came into the game just to play the hardest defense I can and rebound as much as I can." Kansas 75 Oklahoma State 57 M FG FT FT A R A TP Guelderen 27 4-8 2-2 2 4 5 10 Manning 37 14-20 3-4 10 6 3 31 Newton 30 6-11 1-3 10 6 2 13 Piper 27 5-7 0-2 6 2 2 10 Pritchard 24 0-3 0-2 6 2 2 10 Barry 19 1-2 0-4 6 2 1 5 Harris 19 1-2 0-4 6 2 1 5 Livermore 2 0-0 1-2 0 2 1 5 Maddox 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Marshall 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Masucci 8 0-3 0-0 1 2 2 0 Mattox 8 0-3 0-0 2 0 0 0 Normore 8 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 2 Team 8 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 0 32-81 11-17 38 23 10 75 Totals 32-61 11-17 18-23 17 17 75 SG, 65, 68, FG, 64, 73 Percentages: FG 525, FT 647, Three point goals: 0-4 (Newton, 19) Manning (Manning, Piper), Travers (15) (Manning 4). Steals: 10 (Manning 4). Techniques: None. Oklahoma State | | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | T | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Dumas | 32 | 9-15 | 9-5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 21 | | Woods | 28 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 21 | | Kincheon | 31 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 24 | | Starks | 40 | 1-6 | 3-4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 24 | | Starks | 32 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 24 | | Jeffries | 18 | 1-6 | 2-0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 24 | | Smith | 8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Davis | 8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Galney | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Fowler | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Fowler | 21-50 | 14-18 | 28-11 | 28 | 11 | 9 | 57 | Percentages: FG, 420, FT, 778. Three-point goals: 1-7 (Starks) 1-5. Blocked Shots: 1 (Gatney). Turnovers: 20 (Dumas 8). Steals: 6 (Dumas 2), Starks 2). Technicals: None. Hail: Kansas 30-20. Officials: Reynolds Wilson, Wulkow A. 15,800